I'm using xargs with the option --max-args=0 (alternatively -P 0).
However, the output of the processes is merged into the stdout stream without regard for proper line separation. So I'll often end ...

I'm using an Raspberry Pi in combination with Chromium (kiosk mode) to show up some stats. The Pi doesn't have an connected keyboard so I searched for a solution to send keystrokes from the terminal ...

is there any way to see the disk I/O per pid/process ?
Monitorix shows me the following and correct me if I´m wrong, but it looks like that the harddrive is slowing down the whole system:
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I would like to start a process with a nice value of -20. This requires me to use a command like - sudo nice -n -20 matlab. However, this starts matlab as root too. Is there a way to have matlab as ...

For catastrophe testing scenarios on out server environment we're looking for an easy way to make a process stuck in D (uninterruptible sleep) state.
Any easy ways? An example C sample code would be ...

I am running into a problem all of a sudden; all my applications and the server was running fine and all of a sudden I see the number of open files shoot up.
I am checking it with this command:
cat ...

I'm new to Linux, and I'm probably asking a fairly basic question. How do I run a continuous program on Linux?
Basically, I have a program that will continuously check for content on a website. This ...

I know about strace and ltrace, but that only tells me what system calls and library calls a process is executing, respectively. I would like to know exactly what instructions a process is executing. ...

There are scripts that will send an e-mail when a server process is finished.
However, I do not want to check my email every so often just to see whether a job has finished. Therefore I'd like to get ...

When I do 'top', I learn that there are many processes running out of which many are in sleep state. I need to see complete snapshot of all processes at that point. the 'top' is able to show listing ...

If script is running fine from command line then, why the same script becomes zombie state after running through cron and How you will troubleshoot the same ?
Here following real example :
[root@abc ...

On all of BSD/Linux/MacOS and Solaris, I made an observation - no matter how busy the system is, top always reports very few (usually 1-2) running processes.
According to my limited understanding, a ...

I want a user to run a specific process on the system with a negative nice value.
I can't simply fork the process to background as this specific program is a minecraft server and I rely on the command ...

I've been using x265 to encode some video on my workstation lately, but I have a problem: even though I launch it using nice -n 20 x265 to deprioritize it, it still slows the computer to a crawl while ...

I am looking for an in-depth explanation of the following ProxyCommand, down to the nuts and bolts of its operation, please. Can you kindly completely dissect it for me and improve on it if you can? ...

If I disown a job in bash and change my mind, can I undo it somehow ?
If so, taking it further, is it possible to bring an arbitrary process under job control (an acceptable restriction would be that ...

How do I read or seek from a file that's bigger than the maximum off64_t? The problem arises because the address space of a process is represented in the /proc/.../as file, which is a huge sparse file ...